NEW DELHI, AUGUST 19 (IANS): The Taliban are intensifying their hunt for people who worked for and collaborated with NATO and the US forces, according to a UN document.
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Washington, August 19 (AP): Educated young women, former U.S. military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the U
Washington, August 19 (AP): President Joe Biden says even with the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, he sees a greater threat from outposts of al-Qaida and its affiliated groups in other countries, and that it w
Lahore, August 19 (PTI): A powerful explosion ripped through a Muharram procession in central Pakistan's Punjab province on Thursday, killing at least two, including a seven-year-old girl, and wounding 59 p
Beijing, August 19 (PTI): China appears to be eyeing to clinch lucrative projects to exploit mineral-rich Afghanistan, especially the trillions of dollars worth of rare-earth metals, as it calibrated its policy
Kuala Lumpur, August 19 (AP): Malaysia's longest-governing political party appeared set to reclaim the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat, with its lawmakers summoned to the palace Thursday-
Multan (Pakistan), August 19 (AP): A powerful roadside bomb exploded among a procession of Shiite Muslims in central Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least three and wounding over 50 people, local police said.
Kathmandu, August 19 (PTI): Nepal's main opposition CPN-UML, the largest communist party of the country, has officially split, with one of its factions led by dissident leader Madhav Kumar Nepal applying fo
GENEVA, AUGUST 19 (IANS): Vaccine nationalism by developed countries would prolong the Covid-19 pandemic, when it could be ended in a matter of months by sharing doses and scaling up manufacturing equitably, th
Kabul, August 19 (AP): The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short
Jakarta, August 19 (AP): When February's military takeover of Myanmar led to the collapse of the central health care system, independent ethnic organizations that had operated for decades on the Southeast A
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quashed a rare public show of dissent. The militant group meanwhile met w-
Dhaka, August 18 (PTI): A Bangladeshi high-powered administrative committee has suggested sacking an executive magistrate here for sentencing a journalist to one-year imprisonment, staging a "midnight mobi
LONDON, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years, finds a new study supporting the theory that the Covid-19 is the result of virus jumping from anima
Washington, August 18 (AP): The US State Department has released a joint statement signed by about two dozen nations expressing concern for the rights of Afghan women and girls and urging those in power in Afgh
Bangkok, August 18 (AP): More than 1,000 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi about six months ago, a human right
London, August 18 (PTI): Any recognition of the new government in Afghanistan should happen on an "international, not unilateral" basis, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told his Pakistan coun
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulating on Wednesday, sowi
MUMBAI/PUNE, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Expressing 'solidarity' with the besieged Afghanis, especially the womenfolk, as militant Talibans seized control of their country, irate Indian feminists questioned for h-
Beijing, August 18 (AP): China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a leading internet censor and accused him of a range of crimes and rule breaking from corruption to failing to properly guide public opin
